Abolish Quote by African Spir

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative…

— Thomas Paine

[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which…

— Glenn Greenwald

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

— Noam Chomsky

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The goal is to deter war, and this can only be done with a strong, modern, and ready military that has overmatch in all…

— Mark Esper

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match…

— Anthony de Jasay

“Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and…

— Benjamin Harrison

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

— Thomas Jefferson

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's…

— William Kirby

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker…

— David Mitchell

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On…

— Randolph Bourne